Board of Directors
President: Charles Haletky Charles Haletky was one of Crowded Fire's first volunteers and has been one the company's biggest fans for many years. He works as a gripman on San Francisco's cable cars. |
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Treasurer: Kieran Ringgenberg Kieran Ringgenberg loves engaging and challenging theater. He's been a Crowded Fire fan since being wowed by A-A-America in 2003. A proud father, Kieran is also an attorney at Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP, where his practice focuses on complex commercial litigation involving antitrust, intellectual property, and securities issues. |
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Secretary: Peter Glazer Peter Glazer is an Associate Professor in the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies at UC Berkeley, and has been a professional director and playwright for over 20 years. He first came to the Bay area in 1991, having been a New Yorker for most of his life, and soon became an active member of the Z Space Studio. He left for Chicago in 1996 to pursue a graduate degree, and happily returned to Berkeley in 2001. Peter is proud to be on the board of Crowded Fire. |
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Tina Brier Tina Brier has been the Assistant Circuit Executive for Human Resources for the Office of the Circuit Executive, Ninth Circuit since May 2008. Formerly, she was the Director of Classified Personnel at the Berkeley Unified School District, and the North Western Region Vice President of U.S. Legal Support, Inc. A lawyer by trade, she received her Juris Doctorate from Fordham University School of Law, served as the Chief Deputy Clerk for the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, clerked for U.S. District Judge Allyne Ross, and spent several years working as an attorney in New York and |
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Abie Hadjitarkhani Abie Hadjitarkhani is an entrepreneur with over fifteen years of experience in software and product development, counseling and mental health, and the visual and performing arts. Most recently, he served as CXO of Trumpet Technologies, a mobile application startup. His previous forays into the world of Bay Area non-profits include co-founding the Paraffin Arts Project, a literary arts organization; sitting on the board of the Funnel Foundation, a grantmaking community foundation focused on social, economic, and environmental justice; and providing counseling services at the St. Anthony Foundation's Father Alfred Center, a residential drug and alcohol treatment program. He holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from Stanford University. He also writes poetry and plays and has read and performed in bars, bookstores, and churches throughout the San Francisco Bay Area and New York. |
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Andrew Sullivan Andrew Sullivan is a long time fan of Crowded Fire, proud to have attended every show since Greek Salad. He's been on the Board of Directors since Crowded Fire started having a board back in 2002. In addition to Crowded Fire, he's the chair of Rescue Muni, San Francisco's transit riders' association, and serves on several other local boards and committees. For a living Andrew is a Product Manager at McAfee in Santa Clara. Andrew grew up in the Washington, DC area and then Ann Arbor, MI before moving out to San Francisco to seek fame and fortune in Silicon Valley and the city by the bay. |
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